List of race horse trainers
Race horse trainers train horses for horse racing. This involves exercising, feeding, management and, in early years, to get them used to human contact.[1]
Once a horse is old enough to be ridden, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready by designing exercise routines tailored for each horse and its needs [2] as well as determining which races it should enter. Leading horse trainers can earn a great deal of money from a percentage of the winnings that they charge the owner for training the horse. They typically collect 10% of the purse money won by the horses they are currently training.[3]
Outside horse racing, most trainers specialize in a certain equestrianism discipline. Some fields can be very lucrative, usually depending on the value of the horses one trains or prize money available in competition.
Race horse trainers by country
Australia
- Rod Bonella
- Scobie Breasley
- Fred Castledine
- Bart Cummings
- Etienne L. de Mestre
- Jack Denham
- Isaac Earnshaw
- Greg Eurell
- Seth Ferry
- Lee Freedman
- Cecil Godby
- Sol Green
- Theodore Green
- David Hall
- George Hanlon
- John Hawkes
- Colin Hayes
- David A. Hayes
- Robert Hickmott
- Jack Holt
- Sampson Hosking
- Bob Hoysted
- Pat Hyland
- Sheila Laxon
- Ciaron Maher
- Kerryn Manning
- Bob Maumill
- John F. Meagher
- Denis Pagan
- Brett Sutton
- Gai Waterhouse
- Kim Waugh
- Tommy Woodcock
Argentina
Barbados
- William C. Marshall
- Michael Stoute * Edward Walcott Junior * Elizabeth Deane
Canada
- Sid C. Attard
- Roger Attfield
- Reade Baker
- Macdonald Benson
- James C. Bentley
- Gary Boulanger
- Charles Boyle
- William H. Bringloe
- Josie Carroll
- Lou Cavalaris Jr.
- Reggie Cornell
- David C. Cross Jr.
- Robert T. Davies
- Jim Day
- William Donohue
- Mark Frostad
- Harry Giddings Jr.
- Lucien Laurin
- Roger Laurin
- Les Lear
- Barry Littlefield
- Jerry C. Meyer
- Gordon J. McCann
- Barbara J. Minshall
- Eva Ring
- Rayel Robinson
- William Robinson (Horse trainer)
- Gil Rowntree
- Laurie Silvera
- Yonnie Starr
- Robert Tiller
- Daniel Vella
- Francine Villeneuve
Cuba
France
- Pascal Bary
- Patrick Biancone
- François Boutin
- Georges Bridgland
- Robert Collet
- François Doumen
- Camille du Gast
- William B. Duke
- André Fabre
- Raymond Gruppi
- John Hammond
- Criquette Head-Maarek
- Alec Head
- Freddy Head
- Éric Legrix
- Élie Lellouche
- François Mathet
- Markus Münch
- Jean-Claude Rouget
- Alain de Royer-Dupré
- Bernard Secly
- Charles Semblat
- Nash Turner
- Jimmy Winkfield
- Maurice Zilber
Germany
Hong Kong
- Derek Cruz
- Tony Cruz
- David Ferraris
- Caspar Fownes
- David Hall
- Brian Kan
- Almond Lee
- Andy T. W. Leung
- Frankie Lor
- Manfred K. L. Man
- Anthony T. Millard
- John Moore
- Gary T. K. Ng
- Peter B. K. Ng
- Paul O'Sullivan
- Andreas Schütz
- John Size
- Sean Woods
- Dennis C. H. Yip
- Ricky P. F. Yiu
India
Ireland
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- Jim Bolger
- Cecil Boyd-Rochfort
- Neville Callaghan
- Peter Casey
- Noel Chance
- Denny Cordell
- Barney Curley
- Richard Dawson
- Henry de Bromhead
- Tom Dreaper
- Pat Eddery
- Gordon Elliott
- Richard Fahey
- Francis Flood
- Patrick J. Flynn
- Tom Foley
- Jessica Harrington
- Eoin G. Harty
- Paul Hennessy
- Dessie Hughes
- Richard Hughes
- Kevin Kerr
- Sheila Lavery
- Adrian Maguire
- Noel Meade
- Brian Meehan
- Mouse Morris
- Emmet Mullins
- Paddy Mullins
- Willie Mullins
- Johnny Murtagh
- Aidan O'Brien
- Donnacha O'Brien
- Fergal O'Brien
- Joseph Patrick O'Brien
- Phonsie O'Brien
- Vincent O'Brien
- Edward O'Grady
- Jonjo O'Neill
- Joseph Osborne
- Mick O'Toole
- John Oxx
- James Parkinson
- Paddy Prendergast
- Christy Roche
- Fergie Sutherland
- Charlie Swan
- Pat Taaffe
- Tom Taaffe
- David Wachman
- Michael G. Walsh
- Ted Walsh
- Dermot Weld
Italy
Japan
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New Zealand
- Tony Allan
- Murray Baker
- Cecil Devine
- Bill Hazlett
- Tony Herlihy
- Charlie Hunter
- Free Holmes
- Roger James
- Colin Jillings
- Linda Jones
- Laurie Laxon
- Sheila Laxon
- Hedwick Wilhelmina McDonald
- Trevor McKee
- Michael Moroney
- Denis Nyhan
- Mark Purdon
- Roy Purdon
- Natalie Rasmussen
- Steven Reid
- Dave O'Sullivan
- Lance O'Sullivan
- Paul O'Sullivan
- Jamie Richards
- Graeme Rogerson
- Doody Townley
- Chris Waller
Norway
Singapore
South Africa
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
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- Neil Adam
- Ivan Allan
- Robert Alner
- Jack Anthony
- Charlie Appleby
- Robert Armstrong
- Andrew Balding
- Ian Balding
- Ivor G. Balding
- Toby Balding
- David Barons
- Frederick Whitfield Barrett
- Peter Beaumont
- Ralph Beckett
- George Beeby
- Michael Bell
- Basil Blackett
- George Blackwell
- Herbert Blagrave
- William Blenkiron
- Milton Bradley
- Mark Brisbourne
- Clive Brittain
- Peter Bromley
- Charlie Brooks
- Tim Brookshaw
- Arthur Budgett
- Frank Butters
- Simon Callaghan
- Julie Camacho
- Roy Cambidge
- Henry Candy
- Tom Cannon Sr.
- Peter Cazalet
- Henry Cecil
- Mick Channon
- Jane Chapple-Hyam
- Peter Chapple-Hyam
- Roger Charlton
- Stanley Clarke
- Paul Cole
- Robert Cowell
- Jim Culloty
- Luca Cumani
- Len Cundell
- Fred Darling
- Sam Darling
- Tom Dascombe
- Zoe Davison
- George Dawson
- Mathew Dawson
- John Day
- John Barham Day
- William Day
- Michael Dickinson
- Louie Dingwall
- George Dockeray
- Simon Dow
- Neil D. Drysdale
- George Duller
- Ed Dunlop
- John Dunlop
- Bill Dutton
- Walter Earl
- Mick Easterby
- Peter Easterby
- Tim Easterby
- Edward Ede
- George Edwards
- Eric Eldin
- Bill Elsey
- Charles Elsey
- David Elsworth
- James Fanshawe
- Lord John FitzGerald
- John Forth
- Tim Forster
- Tregonwell Frampton
- Arthur Freeman
- Harry Fry
- Josh Gifford
- Peter Gilpin
- John G. Goldsmith
- Steve Gollings
- John Gosden
- Thady Gosden
- Towser Gosden
- Chris Green
- Brian Gubby
- William Haggas
- John Hammond
- Richard Hannon Jr.
- Richard Hannon Sr.
- Peter Harris
- Guy Harwood
- Patrick Haslam
- Peter Hastings-Bass
- Alfred Hayhoe
- Richard Head, 2nd Viscount Head
- Peter Hedger
- Nicky Henderson
- Dick Hern
- Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles
- Edward Hide
- Barry Hills
- John Hills
- Jeremy Hindley
- Bruce Hobbs
- Philip Hobbs
- Gavin Hunter
- William Hastings-Bass, 17th Earl of Huntingdon
- Jack Jarvis
- Michael Jarvis
- Malcolm Jefferson
- Fulke Johnson Houghton
- Helen Johnson Houghton
- Mark Johnston
- Harry Thomson Jones
- James Kasparoff
- Gay Kindersley
- Alan King
- Henrietta Knight
- George Lambton
- Joseph Lawson
- Francis Lee
- Geoff Lewis
- Morgan Lindsay
- Carl Llewellyn
- David Loder
- Len Lungo
- William Macdonald
- James Octavius Machell
- Beryl Markham
- Marcus Marsh
- Richard Marsh
- William C. Marshall
- Ginger McCain
- Charles McVittie
- Stan Mellor
- Marcus Milner
- Hughie Morrison
- Charles Morton
- Noel Murless
- Florence Nagle
- Richard Newland
- David Nicholls
- Paul Nicholls
- David Nicholson
- Frenchie Nicholson
- Walter Nightingall
- Peter Niven
- Jeremy Noseda
- Ken Oliver
- Tom Olliver
- Jack Ormston
- Jamie Osborne
- Jonathan Pease
- Charles Peck
- Amanda Perrett
- Atty Persse
- Lester Piggott
- David Pipe
- Martin Pipe
- Jenny Pitman
- John Porter
- Mark Prescott
- Ryan Price
- Micky Quinn
- Andrew Reid
- Mary Reveley
- Gordon W. Richards
- Nicky Richards
- John Maunsell Richardson
- Fred Rimell
- Jack Robinson
- Robert Robson
- Richard Rowe
- Lucinda Russell
- Mick Ryan
- Alex Scott
- John Scott
- Michael Scudamore
- Oliver Sherwood
- Robert Sherwood
- Bob Sievier
- Dan Skelton
- Denys Smith
- Sue Smith
- Matt Stephenson
- Michael Stoute
- Alan Swinbank
- Walter Swinburn
- Alec Taylor Jr.
- Alec Taylor Sr.
- Colin Tizzard
- Mark Tompkins
- Jeremy Tree
- Marcus Tregoning
- Nigel Twiston-Davies
- Bernard van Cutsem
- Roger Varian
- Richard Vernon
- Tom Walls
- Fulke Walwyn
- Peter Walwyn
- James Waugh
- Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland
- Venetia Williams
- Norah Wilmot
- Fred Winter
- Richard Woollacott
- Geoff Wragg
- Harry Wragg
United States
- Whitey Abel
- Smiley Adams
- Paul T. Adwell
- Thomas Albertrani
- Frank A. Alexander
- Hank Allen
- Jena Antonucci
- Fernando Alvarez
- Thomas M. Amoss
- Pete D. Anderson
- Steve Asmussen
- Ivor G. Balding
- Kaye Bell
- Bob Baffert
- Dale Baird
- Robert L. Baird
- Laz Barrera
- Thomas J. Barry
- Caroll K. Bassett
- H. Guy Bedwell
- Jesse Beery
- Macdonald Benson
- Elizabeth Williams Berry
- Patrick Biancone
- Sylvia Rideoutt Bishop
- Scott Blasi
- Lew Bloom
- Thomas Bohannan
- Pete Bostwick
- James E. Bracken
- Buck Brannaman
- Kelly J. Breen
- Donna Barton Brothers
- Frank L. Brothers
- Chad Brown
- Edward D. Brown
- Preston M. Burch
- William P. Burch
- Fred Burlew
- Merritt C. Buxton
- J. Dallett Byers
- Patrick B. Byrne
- W. Bret Calhoun
- Robert W. Camac
- Gregory Duncan Cameron
- Hardy Campbell Jr.
- John P. Campo
- Del W. Carroll
- Henry L. Carroll
- Mark E. Casse
- Wayne M. Catalano
- Frank Catrone
- Lou Cavalaris Jr.
- Alice Headley Chandler
- Henry S. Clark
- William R. Claypool
- Christophe Clement
- Chris Cox
- Edward A. Christmas
- Junior Coffey
- Jimmy Combest
- Don Combs
- Gary C. Contessa
- George H. Conway
- James P. Conway
- Edward C. Corrigan
- Brad H. Cox
- Jimmy Croll
- David C. Cross Jr.
- Laura de Seroux
- Hilton Dabson
- J. Keith Desormeaux
- Patrick B. Devereux Sr.
- John Dickerson
- Stephen A. DiMauro
- Stephen L. DiMauro
- Douglas Dodson
- Samuel Doggett
- Wallace Dollase
- William Donohue
- A. Thomas Doyle
- William B. Duke
- Wally Dunn
- Richard E. Dutrow Sr.
- Tony Dutrow
- Ronald W. Ellis
- David Erb
- Jerry M. Fanning
- William B. Finnegan
- William H. Fires
- James E. Fitzsimmons
- William H. Fizer
- Hugh L. Fontaine
- Mark Ford
- Henry Forrest
- Willard C. Freeman
- David A. Gall
- William M. Garth
- John M. Gaver Jr.
- Loyd Gentry Jr.
- Stanley I. Gold
- Alan E. Goldberg
- J. Paco Gonzalez
- Edwin J. Gregson
- Richard E. Handlen
- Carl Hanford
- Scott Harlan
- Eoin G. Harty
- Billy Haughton
- Casey Hayes
- Eddie Hayward
- Bruce Headley
- T. J. Healey
- Dan L. Hendricks
- Mark A. Hennig
- John O. Hertler
- Sam Hildreth
- Sonny Hine
- William J. Hirsch
- Thomas Hitchcock Sr.
- David Hofmans
- Jerry Hollendorfer
- Robert E. Holthus
- Stanley M. Hough
- Lindsay C. Howard
- Neil J. Howard
- Jim Hudson
- Hollie Hughes
- William A. Hurley
- Tim Ice
- Barry Irwin
- Eugene Jacobs
- Hirsch Jacobs
- Silas Jayne
- Lawrence W. Jennings
- H. Allen Jerkens
- Jimmy Jerkens
- Albert Johnson (jockey)
- Philip G. Johnson (horseman)
- Moody Jolley
- LeRoy Jolley
- Ben A. Jones
- Gary F. Jones
- Horace A. Jones
- J. Larry Jones
- Walter A. Kelley
- Thomas Joseph Kelly
- Ralph Kercheval
- John C. Kimmel
- Scott A. Lake
- Chick Lang
- Lucien Laurin
- Roger Laurin
- John J. Lenzini Jr.
- Budd Lepman
- Bruce N. Levine
- Barry Littlefield
- Johnny Longden
- Vance Longden
- Charles LoPresti
- D. Wayne Lukas
- Sarah A. Lundy
- Horatio Luro
- Guy J. Lyon
- John E. Madden
- Michael J. Maker
- James W. Maloney
- Richard E. Mandella
- Steve Margolis
- Pancho Martin
- Jose A. Martin
- Brian Mayberry
- Ron McAnally
- Frank McCabe
- Michael W. McCarthy
- Thomas R. McCarthy
- Byron McClelland
- Conn McCreary
- Robert V. McGarvey
- Shug McGaughey
- Kiaran McLaughlin
- Kenneth McPeek
- Jerry C. Meyer
- Bert S. Michell
- David Miller
- MacKenzie Miller
- Peter Miller
- Richard O. Miller
- William Molter
- J. D. Mooney
- Henry M. Moreno
- Jim Morgan (basketball)
- H. Graham Motion
- William I. Mott
- Winbert F. Mulholland
- Jeff Mullins
- Carl Nafzger
- Jim Nazworthy
- Edward A. Neloy
- John A. Nerud
- Victor J. Nickerson
- Joe Notter
- Niall M. O'Callaghan
- Richard O'Connel
- George M. Odom
- Doug O'Neill
- Joe Orseno
- Homer C. Pardue
- John Parisella
- Burley E. Parke
- Ivan H. Parke
- William L. Passmore
- Charles T. Patterson
- Charles Peoples
- Benjamin W. Perkins Jr.
- Daniel Perlsweig
- Abraham Perry
- Maurice Peters
- Clyde Phillips
- Joseph H. Pierce Jr.
- Helen Pitts
- Jimmy Pitt
- Edward Plesa Jr.
- Todd Pletcher
- Ernie T. Poulos
- Thomas F. Proctor
- Virgil W. Raines
- Rodney Rash
- Eric Reed
- Linda L. Rice
- Katherine Ritvo
- Timothy F. Ritchey
- Jay M. Robbins
- Craig G. Roberts
- Carl A. Roles
- Walter C. Rollins
- Dale Romans
- Haskell Ross
- Louie J. Roussel III
- James G. Rowe Jr.
- James G. Rowe Sr.
- Gail Ruffu
- John Russell
- Sol Rutchick
- James E. Ryan
- John W. Sadler
- Jamie Sanders
- Louis Schaefer
- Ray Schnittker
- Flint S. Schulhofer
- Andy Schuttinger
- Gary Sciacca
- Woodrow Sedlacek
- Jason Servis
- John Servis
- Jonathan E. Sheppard
- Art Sherman
- John Shirreffs
- Bill Shoemaker
- Richard Small
- James W. Smith
- Robert Augustus Smith
- Evert V. Snedecker
- J. Bert Sonnier
- Albert Stall Jr.
- William Ward Stephens
- Woody Stephens
- Dallas Stewart
- Joseph H. Stotler
- Melvin F. Stute
- Warren Stute
- Barclay Tagg
- Jimmy Takter
- Frank M. Taylor
- J. Thomas Taylor
- Mesh Tenney
- Howard M. Tesher
- Herbert J. Thompson
- J. Willard Thompson
- Noble Threewitt
- Vincent Timphony
- Gwyn R. Tompkins
- James J. Toner
- Harry Trotsek
- Clyde Troutt
- Robert Tucker
- Clyde Turk
- Billy Turner
- Jack Van Berg
- Clyde Van Dusen
- David R. Vance
- Harvey L. Vanier
- John M. Veitch
- Sylvester Veitch
- Donnie K. Von Hemel
- R. Wyndham Walden
- W. Elliott Walden
- Roy Waldron
- Billy Walker
- George Walsh
- John T. Ward Jr.
- Wesley A. Ward
- Frank D. Weir
- Buster Welch
- Robert L. Wheeler
- Oscar White
- David A. Whiteley
- Lynn S. Whiting
- Charles E. Whittingham
- Ian Wilkes
- Moe Williams
- Ansel Williamson
- G. Carey Winfrey
- Jimmy Winkfield
- Martin D. Wolfson
- Bennie L. Woolley Jr.
- Frank I. Wright
- Vester R. Wright
- Edward J. Yowell
- Frederick Hinde Zimmerman
- Nick Zito
According to The American Racing Manual, the thoroughbred horse racing trainers who have led the annual money-earning list more than twice since 1908 are:[verification needed]
- D. Wayne Lukas (14)
- Sam Hildreth (9)
- Charlie Whittingham (7)
- Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Horace A. Jones (5)
- Bob Baffert, Laz Barrera, Ben A. Jones, William Molter (4)
- Hirsch Jacobs, Edward A. Neloy, James G. Rowe Sr. (3)
See also
References
- ^ "419.224-010: HORSE TRAINER (agriculture; amuse. & rec.)". Dictionary Of Occupational Titles. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
- ^ "What does a racehorse trainer do? - CareerExplorer". www.careerexplorer.com. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "Racehorse Trainer Job Description: Salary, Skills, & More". LiveAbout. Retrieved 2024-02-19.